"intimidation and threats that have been directed at Assange and Manning by high-ranking members of the Obama Administration."" On 4 December 2010, Reporters Without Borders condemned the ""blocking, cyber-attacks and political pressure"" being directed at WikiLeaks. The organisation is also concerned by some of the extreme comments made by American authorities concerning WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange. On 21 December the organisation announced it will host a mirror website for the leaked US diplomatic cables being published by WikiLeaks. In an article titled ""Only WikiLeaks can save US policy"" published on the online foreign affairs magazine ""The Diplomat"", former"
"more than 10,000 sites on the Dark web related to child porn. WikiLeaks was founded in 2006 by Julian Assange as a ""multi-national media organization and associated library."" WikiLeaks operated under the principle of ""principled leaking,"" in order to fight societal corruption. The not-for-profit functions as a whistleblowing organization that serves as an archive of classified documents. Originally, WikiLeaks was operated with the principles of a wiki site, meaning that users could post documents, edit others' documents, and help decide which materials were posted. The first notable release of documents by WikiLeaks was the release of Afghanistan War logs. In"
"Julian Assange Julian Paul Assange (; born Julian Paul Hawkins; 3 July 1971) is an Australian computer programmer, a grantee of political asylum, a fugitive from a British arrest warrant for breaching bail conditions, and the editor of WikiLeaks. Assange founded WikiLeaks in 2006, and came to international attention in 2010, when WikiLeaks published a series of leaks provided by Chelsea Manning. These leaks included the ""Collateral Murder"" video (April 2010), the Afghanistan war logs (July 2010), the Iraq war logs (October 2010), and CableGate (November 2010). Following the 2010 leaks, the federal government of the United States launched a"
"2006 as a disclosure portal, initially using the Wikipedia model, where volunteers would write up restricted or legally threatened material submitted by whistleblowers. It was Julian Assange—an Australian Internet activist and journalist, and the ""de facto"" editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks—who had the idea of creating what Ben Laurie called an ""open-source, democratic intelligence agency"". The open-editing aspect was soon abandoned, but the site remained open for anonymous submissions. According to Daniel Domscheit-Berg, a former WikiLeaks spokesperson, part of the WikiLeaks security concept was that they did not know who their sources were. ""The New York Times"" wrote in December 2010 that"
"Jimmy Wales Jimmy Donal Wales (born August 7, 1966), also known by the online moniker , is an American Internet entrepreneur, best known as the co-founder of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia and the for-profit web hosting company Wikia. Wales was born in Huntsville, Alabama, where he attended Randolph School, a university-preparatory school. Later, he earned bachelor's and master's degrees in finance from Auburn University and the University of Alabama respectively. While in graduate school, Wales taught at two universities; however, he departed before completing a PhD to take a job in finance and later worked as the Research Director"
"front that provided the emails to Wikileaks, then reported that Rich had been their source. Based partly on their acceptance of the false dates, some experts then concluded that the emails had been copied in the DNC offices, and had not been hacked from outside. Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, fueled the speculation in an interview with ""Nieuwsuur"" published on August 9, 2016, which touched on the topic of risks faced by WikiLeaks' sources. Unbidden, Assange brought up the case of Seth Rich. When asked directly whether Rich was a source, Assange nodded, then said ""we don't comment on"
"Courage Foundation The Courage Foundation is a trust for fundraising the legal defence of individuals such as whistleblowers and journalists. Founded on August 9, 2013, as the 'Journalistic Source Protection Defence Fund' by WikiLeaks, the site later rebranded in June 2014. The trust accepts donations by Bitcoin and maintains a Tor hidden service. Individuals supported are: The trust advisers include Pentagon Papers military analyst Daniel Ellsberg, former NSA executive Thomas Drake, former MI5 British intelligence officer and whistleblower Annie Machon, member of the Chaos Computer Club Andy Müller-Maguhn, Guatemala human rights lawyer Renata Avila, and Pussy Riot. The Courage trustees"
"source of documents in its different formats: audio, video clips, photos or texts. Sami Ben Gharbia, one of the co-founders of Nawaat.org. is a blogger and civil society advocate. He is listed on Foreign Policy magazine's 100 Most Influential Global Thinkers for 2011, and shares the 24th rank with Daniel Domscheit-Berg (a former deputy of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange) and Russian lawyer Alexey Navalny. Ben Gharbia is known for connecting with Ethan Zuckerman's Global Voices project, and founding TuniLeaks, exclusive WikiLeaks on Tunisia, by bringing WikiLeaks into the closed society of pre-revolutionary Tunisia, and pumping it through Nawaat Group Blog."
"access to Wikileaks on July 20, 2016 after it released nearly 300,000 emails involving the ruling Justice and Development Party. The email releases were in response to the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt. Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela, stated his support for WikiLeaks following the release of US diplomatic cables in November 2010 that showed the United States had tried to rally support from regional governments to isolate Venezuela. ""I have to congratulate the people of WikiLeaks for their bravery and courage,"" Chávez commented in televised remarks. In December 2010 United Nations Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Opinion and Expression"
"banned sites had been leaked online, and had been published by WikiLeaks. Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, obtained the blacklist after the ACMA blocked several WikiLeaks pages following their publication of the Danish blacklist. Assange said that ""This week saw Australia joining China and the United Arab Emirates as the only countries censoring WikiLeaks."" Three lists purporting to be from the ACMA were published online over a seven-day period. The leaked list, which was reported to have been obtained from a manufacturer of internet filtering software, contained 2395 sites. Approximately half of the sites on the list were not related"
"was shut down a month later, not having created a coherent work. In March 2007, Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, launched Citizendium, an ""expert-guided"" encyclopedia wiki requiring participants to use their real names. In 2010, the site WikiLeaks (which had been founded in 2006) gained a great deal of both fame and notoriety as a result of a set of leaked documents the site published of classified materials from the United States government, notably footage of the July 12, 2007, Baghdad airstrike, the Afghan War documents leak and the United States diplomatic cables leak. The site runs on the MediaWiki"
"and about 800 people who worked occasionally, none of whom were compensated. WikiLeaks does not have any official headquarters. In November 2010 the WikiLeaks-endorsed news and activism site WikiLeaks Central was initiated and was administrated by editor Heather Marsh who oversaw over 70 writers and volunteers. She resigned on 8 March 2012. WikiLeaks describes itself as ""an uncensorable system for untraceable mass document leaking"". The website is available on multiple servers, different domain names and has an official Darkweb version (available on the Tor Network) as a result of a number of denial-of-service attacks and its elimination from different Domain"
"The attack was claimed to have been carried out by a person by the name of ""Jester"", who describes himself as a ""hacktivist"". Jester took credit for the attack on Twitter, stating that WikiLeaks ""threaten[ed] the lives of our troops and 'other assets'"". On 2 December 2010, EveryDNS, who provide a free DNS hosting service, dropped WikiLeaks from its entries, citing DDoS attacks that ""threatened the stability of its infrastructure"", but the site was copied and made available at many other addresses, an example of the Streisand effect. John Perry Barlow, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, wrote a tweet"
"a broad range of organisations and politicians, WikiLeaks started by 2016 to focus almost exclusively on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. In the 2016 US presidential election, WikiLeaks only exposed material damaging to the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton. WikiLeaks even rejected the opportunity to publish unrelated leaks, because it dedicated all its resources to Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party. According to ""The New York Times"", WikiLeaks timed one of its large leaks so that it would happen on the eve of the Democratic Convention. The ""Washington Post"" noted that the leaks came at an important sensitive moment"
"camps, but they'll come with a smiley face and maybe a TV show ... That’s how the 21st-century fascists will essentially take over.” Moore started the website TrumpiLeaks in May 2017, to encourage whistleblowers to provide information about Donald Trump. Moore was inspired to create the site after witnessing the firings by Trump of three law enforcement officials, specifically: United States Attorney Preet Bharara, former acting United States Attorney General Sally Yates, and former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation James Comey. Moore posted a message to his personal website, explaining the motivation of the new venture and that"
"Friends of WikiLeaks Friends of WikiLeaks, sometimes reduced and stylized as FoWL, was a surveillance-resistant social network site created in support of WikiLeaks. Founded in May 2012, the site was intended for those who support WikiLeaks and its activities to perform advocacy. In contrast to more traditional forms of social networking, FoWL aimed at bringing together like-minded people who do not yet know each other. To achieve this goal, the site would ask about the language the user speaks as well as any preferences in the ways of hobbies or other activities. The site would then find six friends who"
"WordPress. In 2014 Dynadot launched a website builder product. In February 2008, the wikileaks.org domain name was taken offline after the Swiss Bank Julius Baer sued WikiLeaks and Dynadot, the wikileaks.org domain registrar, in a court in California, United States, and obtained a permanent injunction ordering the shutdown. WikiLeaks had hosted allegations of illegal activities at the bank's Cayman Islands branch. WikiLeaks' U.S. Registrar, Dynadot, complied with the order by removing its DNS entries. However, the website remained accessible via its numeric IP address, and online activists immediately mirrored WikiLeaks at dozens of alternative websites worldwide. The American Civil Liberties"
"Wikipedia Wikipedia (, ) is a multilingual, web-based, free encyclopedia based on a model of openly editable and viewable content, a wiki. It is the largest and most popular general reference work on the World Wide Web, and is one of the most popular websites by Alexa rank. It is owned and supported by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that operates on money it receives from donors. Wikipedia was launched on January 15, 2001, by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. Sanger coined its name, as a portmanteau of ""wiki"" and ""encyclo""pedia"""". Initially an English-language encyclopedia, versions in other languages"
"WikiLeaks Party The WikiLeaks Party was a micro political party in Australia. The party was created in part to support Julian Assange's failed bid for a Senate seat in Australia in the 2013 election, where they won 0.66% of the national vote. The WikiLeaks Party national council consisted of: Julian Assange, Matt Watt, Gail Malone, John Shipton, Omar Todd and Gerry Georgatos. Julian Assange's decision to run for the Australian Senate was announced via the WikiLeaks Twitter account in March 2012. The intent to form a WikiLeaks Party was announced by Assange in late 2012, and Assange stated that the"
"Utah governor Mike Leavitt and former U.S. Senator from Oregon Gordon H. Smith. Ryan McKnight, founder of MormonLeaks, was interviewed by ""The New York Times"" about his YouTube channel Mormon Leaks, and this led to contacts from Reddit who asked him for a secure way to send files. He set up a website to allow whistleblowers to protect their anonymity. The submission process ensures confidentiality, including erasure of IP addresses, asking leakers to use the privacy browser Tor, sending documents via SecureDrop, and additional encryption methods. Initial funding was raised through GoFundMe, and an official Twitter account was set up."
"History of Wikipedia Wikipedia began with its launch on 15 January 2001, two days after the domain was registered by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. Its technological and conceptual underpinnings predate this; the earliest known proposal for an online encyclopedia was made by Rick Gates in 1993, but the concept of a free-as-in-freedom online encyclopedia (as distinct from mere open source) was proposed by Richard Stallman in December 2000. Crucially, Stallman's concept specifically included the idea that no central organization should control editing. This characteristic was in stark contrast to contemporary digital encyclopedias such as Microsoft Encarta, ""Encyclopædia Britannica"", and"
"reportedly complained that the article ""was littered with factual errors and incomprehensible sentences"" and seemed to have a pronounced liberal bias. WikiTribune WikiTribune (stylized as WikiTRIBUNE) is a news website where volunteers write and curate articles about widely publicised news by proofreading, fact-checking, suggesting possible changes, and adding sources from other, usually long established outlets. Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, announced the site in April 2017 as a for-profit site, not affiliated with Wikipedia or its support organisation, the Wikimedia Foundation. Until October 2018, WikiTribune employed journalists with established backgrounds in the profession who researched, syndicated, and reported news. Initial"
"Porn Wikileaks Porn Wikileaks is a wiki website (pornwikileaks.com) which contains the personal information, including the real names, of over 15,000 pornographic actors. The information came from a patient database managed by AIM Medical Associates which has closed due to the lawsuits caused by the leaks, a clinic where many pornographic film performers were tested for sexually transmitted diseases. The website received criticism from performers such as Kimberly Kane who stated, ""Most of us in the porn industry know who is behind Porn WikiLeaks; he is doing it out of hatred for a business that shunned him for being even"
"'Affidavit in Support of Application for Arrest Warrant' dated July 5, 2017, FBI Special Agent Justin C. Garrick stated: Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, called on the public to support Winner, offering a $10,000 reward for information about a reporter for ""The Intercept"" who had allegedly helped the U.S. government identify Winner as the leaker. Assange wrote on Twitter that ""Winner is no Clapper or Petraeus with 'elite immunity'. She's a young woman against the wall for talking to the press."" Winner was charged with ""removing classified material from a government facility and mailing it to a news outlet."""
"includes emails from seven key DNC staff members, and date from January 2015 to May 2016. The leaked contents, which suggested the party's leadership had worked to sabotage Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign, prompted the resignation of DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz before the Democratic National Convention. After the convention, DNC CEO Amy Dacey, CFO Brad Marshall, and Communications Director Luis Miranda also resigned in the wake of the controversy. WikiLeaks did not reveal its source. Later Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, stated that the source of the emails was not Russia. On July 13, 2018, Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted"
"accused of being illegal. Historical summaries Size and statistics Discussion and debate archives Other History of Wikipedia Wikipedia began with its launch on 15 January 2001, two days after the domain was registered by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. Its technological and conceptual underpinnings predate this; the earliest known proposal for an online encyclopedia was made by Rick Gates in 1993, but the concept of a free-as-in-freedom online encyclopedia (as distinct from mere open source) was proposed by Richard Stallman in December 2000. Crucially, Stallman's concept specifically included the idea that no central organization should control editing. This characteristic was"
"$2.7 million, $3.4 million, and $1.6 million, respectively. The founders moved the company to Seattle, Washington in 2004, where it remains headquartered today. In August 2016, Tableau announced the appointment of Adam Selipsky as president and CEO, effective September 16, 2016, replacing co-founder Christian Chabot as CEO. On December 2, 2010, Tableau deleted WikiLeaks's visualizations about the United States diplomatic cables leak, stating it was due directly to political pressure from US Senator Joe Lieberman. On February 21, 2011, Tableau posted an updated data policy. The accompanying blog post cited the two main changes as (1) creating a formal complaint"
"particular, the IP addresses of visitors to WikiLeaks were collected in real time, and the US government urged its allies to file criminal charges against the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, due to his organization's publication of the Afghanistan war logs. The WikiLeaks organization was designated as a ""malicious foreign actor"". Quoting an unnamed NSA official in Germany, ""Bild am Sonntag"" reported that whilst President Obama's order to stop spying on Merkel was being obeyed, the focus had shifted to bugging other leading government and business figures including Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere, a close confidant of Merkel. Caitlin Hayden,"
"this material, my client is willing to refrain from bringing a claim [of abusing copyright law]."" WikiLeaks was aware of the foundation under the site's original name of MormonWikiLeaks, and sent them a message on Twitter asking them to change their name. The founder stated he would retain the name as MormonWikiLeaks, and said a trademark application was pending. University of Tampa professor Ryan Cragun said academics were excited to discover more information about the economics behind the LDS Church, as members tithe 10 percent of their earnings and there was not much in the way of transparent documents available"
"Europe. She relocated to Berlin in June 2015 to cover Germany and Europe. In October, 2010, Shubert interviewed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange shortly after his organization released classified US military documents related to the Iraq War. After asking him questions about internal issues related to Wikileaks itself, she began asking questions about his alleged sexual assaults. Assange stated that if this line of questioning continued, as opposed to being asked questions directly related to the leaked documents, he would leave the interview. Shubert persisted in her line of questioning, and Assange walked out of the interview. Atika Shubert Atika Shubert"
"the other of the political sphere, which is good...And overall our audience leans a bit left, but it doesn’t lean overwhelmingly so."" Vox (website) Vox is an American news and opinion website owned by Vox Media. The website was founded in April 2014 by Ezra Klein and is noted for its concept of explanatory journalism. Prior to founding ""Vox"", Ezra Klein worked for ""The Washington Post"" as the head of Wonkblog, a public policy blog. When Klein attempted to launch a new site using funding from the newspaper's editors, his proposal was turned down and Klein subsequently left ""The Washington"
"He figured if you could get the gays on board, everyone else will follow...(like the) Milo Yiannopoulos thing"". Christopher Wylie Christopher Wylie (born 19 June 1989) is a Canadian man who was previously the director of research at Cambridge Analytica. In 2018, he became a whistleblower in the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal. In 2018, Wylie became a whistleblower, giving ""The Guardian"" documents that described the secret workings behind Cambridge Analytica. The documents center around Cambridge Analytica's alleged unauthorized possession of personal private data from some 87 million Facebook user accounts, obtained for the purpose of creating targeted political campaigns for"
"airstrike. On 14 December 2010, in relation to ongoing investigations of WikiLeaks, the US Department of Justice issued a subpoena ordering Twitter to release information regarding Gonggrijp's account as well as those of Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Jacob Appelbaum and all 637,000 users following @wikileaks. The reason is Gonggrijp's collaboration in releasing the ""Collateral Murder"" video in April 2010, a WikiLeaks action. Rop Gonggrijp Robbert (Rop) Valentijn Gonggrijp (born 14 February 1968) is a Dutch hacker and one of the founders of XS4ALL. Gonggrijp was born in Amsterdam. While growing up in Wormer in the Dutch Zaanstreek area,"